Dodgers show their resiliency again in NLDS Game 1 comeback win over Phillies
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Dodgers show their resiliency again in NLDS Game 1 comeback win over Phillies
"In a come-from-behind, statement-sending 5-3 win, the Dodgers did again what carried them a championship last October. They shrugged off the early adversity, with Ohtani allowing no further damage over a six-inning start; finishing his postseason pitching debut with nine strikeouts and four monumental scoreless frames. Their lineup chipped away at the deficit, knocking Phillies ace and Cy Young Award candidate Cristopher Sánchez out of the game on Kiké Hernández's two-out, two-run double in the sixth."
"Then, they landed the actual knockout blow, with Teoscar Hernández flipping the game - and the feel of this best-of-five series - with a two-out, three-run, stadium-silencing home run in the seventh. Game 2 will be back here in South Philadelphia on Monday night. And the Dodgers will go into it with, given the way Saturday started, an unexpected 1-0 series lead. It could not have started worse for the Dodgers. Sánchez was carving them up with wicked sinkers and fall-off-the-table changeups. Ohtani, meanwhile, ran into early trouble in the bottom of the second."
Two innings into Game 1, the Phillies scored three runs off Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers' offense stalled against left-hander Cristopher Sánchez. Ohtani settled and completed six innings, recording nine strikeouts and four scoreless frames after the second. The Dodgers' lineup chipped away at the deficit, and Kiké Hernández's two-out, two-run double in the sixth drove Sánchez from the game. Teoscar Hernández hit a two-out, three-run home run in the seventh to turn the game and silence the crowd. The Dodgers won 5-3 and will take a 1-0 series lead into Game 2 in Philadelphia.
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